All posts by Chris Latta

I’m pretty sure Demon Eye is the most cheerful band associated with the doom/occult rock movement. They’re never as tongue in cheek as Ghost and their ilk nor reaching for the irony crowd, but there’s an impish spirit in their already upbeat style that [...]

Right off the bat, Mothership’s third full-length album stands out for its shorter length compared to its two predecessors. High Strangeness is not only just a little over a half hour long total, but also features shorter song lengths on average compared [...]

When you think of bloated double albums, I’ll bet money that the Use Your Illusions by Guns N’ Roses are the first ones that come to mind. It was understandable for the long-awaited follow-up to the iconic Appetite for Destruction to consist of two fully [...]

The Midnight Ghost Train’s decade long love of ferocious riffs and explosive live shows has made them a favorite band among the stoner rock crowd, but the Topeka group has always asserted themselves as merely being an especially loud blues band. They’ve [...]

While Hailshot has been branded as a stoner/doom band in some metal circles, the Milford, Indiana group shows off more thrash and sludge influence on their second album. This is made immediately evident with the opening tracks, as “Baptized in Sulphur” [...]

As a guy that’s been a Black Sabbath fan since high school, I’m thankful that the band is no longer solely judged by the albums featuring Ozzy Osbourne. Whether it was spearheaded by the Heaven & Hell reunion with Ronnie James Dio or just a gradual [...]

Metallica has always had a problem with releasing albums that are just too long. It wasn’t as much of a problem when Master of Puppets and …And Justice for All were padded with a score of ambitious riffs, but it became a serious cause of concern when Load [...]

A dark shadow hangs over Warbeast’s third full-length album. In the spring of 2017, vocalist Bruce Corbitt, also of the legendary Rigor Mortis, announced that he would be stepping down from his position and retiring from singing altogether due to a severe [...]